Past Events

Three leading organizations - the Center for the Environment at Catawba College, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Environmental Working Group - are partnering to provide an opportunity for young environmental leaders to learn, create, share, interact, grow, connect, and build relationships.

The executive director of Environmental Working Group (EWG) will speak Tuesday, April 28, on “Igniting Change for Real Food, Healthy People and a Vibrant Environment” at the Center for the Environment building on the Catawba College campus.

An internationally recognized cancer expert will speak Tuesday, April 21, on “Clean Air Policy and Your Health” at the Center for the Environment building on the Catawba College campus. Dr. Kim Lyerly’s presentation, scheduled for 6:30 p.m., is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Videos of Past Events

Peter Forbes, in his years as a conservationist, has learned that the work is all about relationship building. He has also learned that those who are interested in conservation and those who are interested in social justice must work together to solve the planet’s problems. Forbes, co-founder of the Vermont-based Center for Whole Communities, emphasized in his remarks at Catawba College that people and the land are tied together, and what affects one affects the other.

A pediatrician with Salisbury Pediatrics' Asthma Clinic, Dr. Christopher Magryta delivered a presentation titled "Nutrition, the Environment & the Genome" at the Center for the Environment. "We are constantly being bombarded with environmental pollutants," says Magryta, "but a cure is possible through stress reduction and nutritional therapies. We have very good data that we can nutritionally detoxify many of the things we encounter."